April 2019


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Hampton University's Annual Read-In Selects 'One Turn Around The Sun'


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BY HAMPTON UNIVERSITY Tim Seibles


HAMPTON, Va. — The Hampton


University School of Liberal Arts and Education has selected Tim Seibles’ “One Turn Around The Sun” as the 2019 Hampton University Read-In book. This year’s Hampton University Read-In will take place on Tuesday, April 9 at 6:00 p.m. at the Memorial Chapel. This event is free and open to the public.


“The School of Liberal Arts and


Education’s Read-In events are not only educational, but inspirational for all. We welcome Mr. Tim Seibles to Hampton University to share his poems with us, and to inspire attendees of this year’s Read-In,”


said Hampton University President, Dr. William R. Harvey. Critic Adam Tavel calls “One


Turn Around The Sun,” “a moving and sinuous collection that copes with [Seibles’] parents’ twilight, his own middle-aged yearnings, and the ways in which race and technology perpetually complicate American society, in poems notable for their metaphoric power and elastic forms.”


Since 1988, The Hampton


University Read-In has been an event designed to offer all segments of the University community and surrounding communities the opportunity to focus on one particular book for study and discussion.


Through the years,


selected books have been both works HAMPTON UNIVERSITY PAGE 4


400 years ago, the first Africans landed in English North America and helped to form


a multicultural nation. COMMEMORATE 400 YEARS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN IMPACT.


Plan to visit Hampton in 2019 to participate in the events, exhibitions, speaker series, performances, and reenactments that recognize the first Africans’ landing and examine our nation today.


Learn more at HamptonVA2019.com or call 800.800.2202


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